1938-04-06 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938.

Britain, America Move To Clean

Up Espionage Menace WOMEN AGENTS

13 KNOCKDOWNS WERE PLENTY

AFTER THE 13th KNOCKDOWN. Referee Joe Gorman stepped between Henry Armstrong, Negro feather-weight king, and Al Citrino, in the fourth round of their boul in San Francisco, and This scene was taken in the fourth decided Cirino had had enough. round, Armstrong, left, with Citrino down.

British Naval Officer In Burglary Sensation

A retired engineer-commander of the Royal Navy, Harry Maxwell Attwool, of Emsworth, near Portsmouth, was charged at Havant Police Court with attempting to break into Lyndhurst Guest House, Emsworth, and with having housebreaking im- plements.

He was committed for trial, trowel, and a tyre lever, and was and was allowed bail, He pleaded wearing women's shoes. not guilty and reserved his de- fence.

near

-P. C. Legg and that at 10.50 p.m. on February 22 he saw a car stop Attwool the guest house. walked up the drive and examined: the front and back doors and the French windows.

When charged, he replied: "I only went there to get the sea breeze. The reason I have this with me (indicat-[ ing the femmy) is that I did not want it stolen from my car."

BRITAIN'S TREES TO BE. COUNTED

London,

A census of the trees in Great Bri Hearing sounds as though an at- tempt was being made to open the tnin's woodlands is to be taken, Sir Robinson, chairman of the front door, he (the constable) shone Roy his torch on Attwool and said, "What Forestry Commission, revealed in an are you doing here?"

"Having a look round," replied Attwool.

Jemmy,

He had an electrle torch,

address to the Chartered Surveyors Institute. The census, it is under- | stood, will take necount of old and new trees, which will be enumerated with tabulated descriptions.

HELP M.I. 5

Spy fever is raging in America, in Russia now in Britain.

and

Drastic drives to clean up foreign agents are being made by the Governments of all the great Powers.

There are indications of the beginning of a tighening-up campaign in Britain.

Secret Service men of the Admiralty, War Office, and the Air Ministry (the famous. M.I.5) working in co-operation with Scot- land Yard, are almost ready to round up 20 spies.

In each case evidence has been collected, but the finai damning plece of evidence is missing.

Scotland Yard Special Branch, which works very closely with the Secret Service, has quietly increased its strength by 100 new operatives.

MYSTERY MAN IN CAFE DRAMA

Resides checking political, firebrands, aliens and extremists, they are called in by the Secret Service to take over the routine work after the Service have cornered their quarry.

A striking example of this, which happened some time ago, was revealed by a retired officer of the Service recently.

Special Branch officers were warned to be outside a cafe at Hampstead to meet a Secret Service agent.

When they arrived, knowing nothing of their misalon, they were met by the operative, who revealed his identity and then, pointing to a particular man sit- ting in the cafe, ordered arrest

his

The Secret Service man

then vanished and did not appear in the case again.

out The officers followed

their instructions and, hiring a taxl-cab, took the suspect to the Yard,

To their surprise they found full written Instructions as to how they were to proceed awaiting them their office.

FACTORY WATCH

in

Men and women agents have for months past been working serrelly as mechanics, munition workers and fitters in Governinent factories, con- tinually on the watch for signs of

Sudden opulence of tellow dealings with foreign agents.

workers above their station is always carefully examined for the possibility of foreign money for exchange of secrets being the

source.

Brilliant examples of the counter- espionage work of the British Secret come into the Service have just possession of Home contemporary.

Others are revealed in "The Story of the Secret Service," by Richard Wilmer Rowan (published by John Miles, Ltd.).

paper was closely inspected. Nothing auspicious was found until it

tested for invisible ink.

Wus

newspaper

In the margin of the was a brief message announcing "C had gone North. I am sending from 201,"

A Scotland Yard detective-inspec- for was put in charge of the case.

The newspaper was postmarked Deptford, and his first inquiry was Dept- to and how many streets in

up ford had houses numbered above 201.

to

SECRET WRITING There was only one-Deptford High-street.

Scotland Yord swooped.

Peter Haha, At 201 they found baker and confectioner, a naturalised British subject. He dented all know- ledge of the newspaper, swore that he had never sent one to Amsterdam.

But when his shop Was searched detectives found a bottle of Invisible ink and the peculiar ball-painted pen used for secret writing.

Further inquiries revealed that Peter Hahn had a friend, a frequent visitor. He was described as distin guished, tall, and was thought to be

Russian.

There was a weary bunt through all the boarding-house registers until And then one day a landlady told the search narrowed to Bloomsbury. the police that she had had a lodger answering to their description. He INVISIBLE INK CLUE

was a Russian, his name was Muller to Newcastle- Shrewd work by the censor by the famous counter-espionage ex- and he had gone to perts of Room 40 O.B. at the Ad-on-Tyne on private business. iniralty led to the capture of two effective German sples during war.

and

A censor was examining postal packets going abroad to neutral countries when he found a news. paper addressed to Amsterdam. The Amsterdam address was the suspect list, and so the

the

on

news-

The "C" of the message had gone North, and detectives were certain A message was flashed to New- that they were on the right track. castle, and Muller was arrested.

It was discovered that he was ngent, an accomplished secret and that he had acquired a great deal of valuable naval inform- ation.

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